Why Was the Stanford Prison Experiment Halted Earlier Than Intended

question 35

Multiple Choice

Why was the Stanford Prison Experiment halted earlier than intended

• A)All of the mock prison inmates quit the experiment due to stress.
• B)The emotional impact on the prison guards and inmates was far greater than expected.
• C)An Institutional Review Board stopped the experiment.
• D)The mock prison guards quit the experiment due to the living conditions in the study.

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can vary in the analysis without violating any given constraints.

Normally Distributed Populations

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T-test

A statistical test used to determine if there is a significant difference between the means of two groups which may be related in certain features.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a statistic based on a large number of samples drawn from a specific population.